Sermon Tone Analysis

*Definitions of Spiritual Disciplines*

Heb 12:11

 

(AMP)  For the time being no discipline brings joy, but seems grievous and painful; but afterwards it yields a peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it [/a harvest of fruit which consists in righteousness--in conformity to God's will in purpose, thought, and action, resulting in right living and right standing with God/].

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1 Corinthians 9:27

(NLT)  I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should.

Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified.

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*Celebration*: Utter delight and joy in ourselves, our life, and our world as a result of our faith and confidence in God’s greatness, beauty, and goodness.

2 Samuel 6:14 ESV  And David danced before the LORD with all his might.

And David was wearing a linen ephod.

*Chastity: *purposefully turning away for a time from dwelling upon or engaging in the sexual dimension of our relationship to others – even our husband or wife – and thus learning how not be governed by this powerful dimension of our life.

2 Samuel 11:8 ESV  Then David said to Uriah, "Go down to your house and wash your feet."

And Uriah went out of the king's house, and there followed him a present from the king.

2 Samuel 11:9 ESV  But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and did not go down to his house.

2 Samuel 11:10 ESV  When they told David, "Uriah did not go down to his house," David said to Uriah, "Have you not come from a journey?

Why did you not go down to your house?"

2 Samuel 11:11 ESV  Uriah said to David, "The ark and Israel and Judah dwell in booths, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are camping in the open field.

Shall I then go to my house, to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife?

As you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do this thing."

2 Samuel 11:12 ESV  Then David said to Uriah, "Remain here today also, and tomorrow I will send you back."

So Uriah remained in Jerusalem that day and the next.

*Confession:* Sharing our deepest weaknesses and failures to God and trusted others so that we may enter into God’s grace and mercy and experience His ready forgiveness and healing.

 

2 Samuel 12:13 ESV  David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD."

And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.

*Fasting:* The voluntary denial of an otherwise normal function – most often food- for the sake of intense spiritual activity.

 

2 Samuel 12:16 ESV  David therefore sought God on behalf of the child.

And David fasted and went in and lay all night on the ground.

2 Samuel 12:17 ESV  And the elders of his house stood beside him, to raise him from the ground, but he would not, nor did he eat food with them.

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*Fellowship:* common activities with other disciples of worship, study, prayer, celebration, and service that sustain our life together and enlarge our capacity to experience more of God.

Psalms 55:13 ESV  But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my familiar friend.

Psalms 55:14 ESV  We used to take sweet counsel together; within God's house we walked in the throng.

*Guidance: *Experiencing an interactive friendship with God which gives direction and purpose to daily life.

Psalms 138:8 ESV  The LORD will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O LORD, endures forever.

Do not forsake the work of your hands.

*Meditation: *Prayerful rumination on God, His word and His world

 

Psalms 42:2 ESV  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.

When shall I come and appear before God?

Psalms 1:2 ESV  but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.

Psalms 19:1 ESV  To the choirmaster.

A Psalm of David.

The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

*Prayer: *Interactive conversation with God about what we- God and us- are thinking and doing together.

Psalms 21:1 ESV  To the choirmaster.

A Psalm of David.

O LORD, in your strength the king rejoices, and in your salvation how greatly he exults!

Psalms 21:2 ESV  You have given him his heart's desire and have not withheld the request of his lips.

Selah

Psalms 21:3 ESV  For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

Psalms 21:4 ESV  He asked life of you; you gave it to him, length of days forever and ever.

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*Sacrifice**:* Deliberately forsaking the security of satisfying our needs with what is in our own hands in the faith and hope that God will bear us up.

 

2 Samuel 24:21 ESV  And Araunah said, "Why has my lord the king come to his servant?"

David said, "To buy the threshing floor from you, in order to build an altar to the LORD, that the plague may be averted from the people."

2 Samuel 24:22 ESV  Then Araunah said to David, "Let my lord the king take and offer up what seems good to him.

Here are the oxen for the burnt offering and the threshing sledges and the yokes of the oxen for the wood.

2 Samuel 24:23 ESV  All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king."

And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you."

2 Samuel 24:24 ESV  But the king said to Araunah, "No, but I will buy it from you for a price.

I will not offer burnt offerings to the LORD my God that cost me nothing."

So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

*Secrecy:** *Consciously refraining from having our good deeds and qualities generally known, which, in turn, rightly disciplines the longing of the flesh for recognition.

1Sa 16:16 ESV  Let our lord now command your servants who are before you to seek out a man who is skillful in playing the lyre, and when the harmful spirit from God is upon you, he will play it, and you will be well."

1Sa 16:17 ESV  So Saul said to his servants, "Provide for me a man who can play well and bring him to me."

1Sa 16:18 ESV  One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the LORD is with him."

1Sa 16:19 ESV  Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, "Send me David your son, who is with the sheep."

*Service: *loving thoughtful, active promotion of the good of others and the causes of God in our world through which we experience the many little deaths of going beyond ourselves.

2Sa 9:3 ESV  And the king said, "Is there not still someone of the house of Saul, that I may show the kindness of God to him?"

Ziba said to the king, "There is still a son of Jonathan; he is crippled in his feet."

2Sa 9:4 ESV  The king said to him, "Where is he?"

And Ziba said to the king, "He is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar."

2Sa 9:5 ESV  Then King David sent and brought him from the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, at Lo-debar.

2Sa 9:6 ESV  And Mephibosheth the son of Jonathan, son of Saul, came to David and fell on his face and paid homage.

And David said, "Mephibosheth!"

And he answered, "Behold, I am your servant."

2Sa 9:7 ESV  And David said to him, "Do not fear, for I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan, and I will restore to you all the land of Saul your father, and you shall eat at my table always."

*Silence:** *Closing our souls from “sounds,” whether they be noise, music, or words, * *so that we may better still the inner chatter and clatter of our noisy hearts and be increasingly attentive to God.

 

Psa 62:5 ESV  For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.

*Simplicity~/Frugality:* The inward reality of single-hearted focus upon God and His kingdom which results in an outward lifestyle of modesty, openness, and unpretentiousness and which disciplines our hunger for status, glamour, and luxury.

Psa 116:4 ESV  Then I called on the name of the LORD: "O LORD, I pray, deliver my soul!"

Psa 116:5 ESV  Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.

Psa 116:6 ESV  The LORD preserves the simple; when I was brought low, he saved me.

Psa 116:7 ESV  Return, O my soul, to your rest; for the LORD has dealt bountifully with you.

*Solitude:** *The creation of an open, empty space in our lives by purposefully abstaining from interaction with other human beings so that we can be found by God and by which we are freed from competing loyalties.

Psa 63:1 ESV  A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.

O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psa 63:2 ESV  So I have looked upon you in the sanctuary, beholding your power and glory.

Psa 63:3 ESV  Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

*Study:** *The intentional process of engaging the mind with the written and spoken word of God and the world which God has created in such a way that the mind takes on an order conforming to the order upon which it concentrates.

Psa 77:12 ESV  I will ponder all your work, and meditate on your mighty deeds.

Psa 77:13 ESV  Your way, O God, is holy.

What god is great like our God?

Psa 77:14 ESV  You are the God who works wonders; you have made known your might among the peoples.

Psa 77:15 ESV  You with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph.

Selah

Psa 77:16 ESV  When the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; indeed, the deep trembled.

Psa 77:17 ESV  The clouds poured out water; the skies gave forth thunder; your arrows flashed on every side.

Psa 77:18 ESV  The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth trembled and shook.

Psa 77:19 ESV  Your way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints were unseen.

*Submission:** *A constant mutual subordination out of reverence for Christ within the Christian fellowship, which opens the way for particular subordination to those who are qualified to direct our efforts toward Christlikeness and who the add the weight of their wise authority on the side of our willing spirit to help us to do the things we would like to do and refrain from the things we don’t want to do.

1Sa 24:9 ESV  And David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to the words of men who say, 'Behold, David seeks your harm'?

1Sa 24:10 ESV  Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave.

And some told me to kill you, but I spared you.